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Developmental Sexuality
Identify three topics related to developmental psychology or to psychology across the life span that are of personal interest to you or are related to your professional career. Explain your choices. Then highlight two or three issues within each topic, and identify two or three resources that will be helpful for you in addressing each topic. Remember to support your post by incorporating the assigned resources into your response.
Aging Changes
From the required readings, identify four topics about physical changes in men and women as a result of aging that relate to your personal interests or your future work. Explain why you selected these topics, and discuss how each of these changes might affect the sexual activity and sexuality of an older adult. Then highlight two or three current or controversial issues within each topic, and identify one external resource to help you address one of these issues. Remember to support your post by incorporating the assigned resources into your response.
They require thorough answers on the topic and “at least one peer-reviewed scholarly journal article, preferably a research article”.
Below is the Book/chapters
Use your textbook and the Capella library to complete the following:
- In your LeVay and Baldwin text, Human Sexuality:
- Read Chapter 6, “Sexual Development,” pages 153–190.
- Read Chapter 13, “Sexuality Across the Life Span,” pages 407–446.
- Read Deacon, Minichiello, and Plummer’s 1995 article, “Sexuality and Older People: Revisiting the Assumptions,” from Educational Gerontology, volume 21, issue 5, pages 497–513.
Presenting and Incorporating Research Articles into
Discussions and Assignments By Jacquelyn St. Germaine, Ph.D.
You are often asked to find a research article to include in your work. Typically, instructions will
ask you to find a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal article or to find a research journal article to
use in your discussions or assignments.
First, when searching for such an article, use the word “research” in your search and choose an
aspect of your topic. For example, if you are studying adolescent development and the
discussion topic asks if it is beneficial for adolescents in high school to have a job:
• You can search generally for “research”, “work”, and “adolescents” and you’ll find
numerous articles.
• To narrow it down, identify aspects of the topic you are interested in such as effects on
academic success or effects on family, or benefits and risks of adolescents working and
use these aspects to include more specific search words.
• Limit your search to the past five years, which will give you current research information.
o If you use an older article, such as one from 1995, the data may not be currently
valid or useful. That research was done on another generation of adolescents in
a time where they probably didn’t all have cell phones or use computers to do
their homework.
o If you find an older article that you really like, you can use it effectively if you pair
it with a current article of the same topic and compare and contrast similarities
and differences in the outcomes.
• To make your work stand out add a little critical thinking and propose a rationale for
changes such as:
o How a generation which grew up during a war may have varying opportunities.
o Types of work for which adolescents can be hired.
o How adolescents are better able or less able to manage their time.
Next, in a psychological study the outcome is based on variables and/or the context of the
study. Therefore, if only the bottom line is reported, it could be misleading to the reader. For
example, you might find an article that says it becomes detrimental for adolescents to work
more than 20 hours per week. If that’s all you say in your discussion, it leads the reader to think
it applies across the board to all adolescent work, no matter what the context is. But let’s say the
study participants were older adolescents who need to have very good grades to get into a
certain college. Might the outcome be different for this context than a context studying
adolescents who are working to develop a skill they will use in their work when they graduate, or
adolescents from different cultures, or adolescents from different socioeconomic statuses?
In summary, present enough of the research study so those reading your discussion or
assignment will understand:
• To whom the study outcomes apply and under what circumstances.
• What the authors did in the study, who the participants were, what was being measured
if in a quantitative study, or reported if in a qualitative study.
• The study outcomes and the implications of the outcomes; i.e., what do the study
outcomes mean in real life or for psychologists in their work?
• How the study outcomes tie back to the rest of your discussion or assignment.
• Your application of critical thinking to analyze or evaluate the study.
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